Republicans "Call Out the Mob"

Yes, this is what the Republican Party has come to - mob rule, threats of violence, bullying, intimidation, and overall an appeal to the "lesser angels of our nature." What would Abraham Lincoln think?

UPDATE: Here's what conservative columnist Kathleen Parker thinks. "Whatever legitimate concerns the GOP may historically have represented were suddenly overshadowed by a sense of a resurgent Old South and all the attendant pathologies of festering hate and fear...What the GOP is experiencing now, one hopes, are the death throes of that 50-year spell that Johnson foretold. But before the party of the Great Emancipator can rise again, Republicans will have to face their inner Voinovich and drive a stake through the heart of old Dixie."